Dealing With a Communist Dictatorship: U.S. Policy and the Softening of Soviet-Style Rule

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This lecture explores America’s Cold War experience in dealing with the communist states of Eastern Europe in an effort to make them less tyrannical and less hostile to the Western world. The focus will be on economic and psychological warfare, cultural and economic border penetration, and diplomacy as a tool of coercion in particular.

Dealing With a Communist Dictatorship: U.S. Policy and the Softening of Soviet-Style Rule

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Dealing With a Communist Dictatorship: U.S. Policy and the Softening of Soviet-Style Rule

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László Borhi

10/25/2011

This lecture explores America’s Cold War experience in dealing with the communist states of Eastern Europe in an effort to make them less tyrannical and less hostile to the Western world. The focus will be on economic and psychological warfare, cultural and economic border penetration, and diplomacy as a tool of coercion in particular. See link for video.